The government awarded thousands of contracts to private companies during the pandemic.

Fast cars and girls were of equal importance to football in the early career of Dalian Atkinson.

Some scientists suggest the reopening date should be delayed until more people are fully vaccinated.

The health secretary denies claims he misled the PM at the start of the pandemic about testing.

A patient body warns access to NHS dentistry has become "more difficult".

Health Secretary Matt Hancock says it is "critical" to monitor the link between cases and hospitalisations.

Michael Portillo is in Suffolk on the last leg of his 1930s Bradshaw’s-inspired tour of East Anglia. He begins at the home of British horseracing, Newmarket, where he learns of the interwar success of a jockey turned trainer and helps to care for a famous ex-racehorse.

At Ickworth House near Bury St Edmonds, Michael gets a taste of life below stairs during the 1930s and is put to work preparing a 'plum betty'. With a taste for sweetness, Michael takes the train to Downham Market to explore how sugar began to be refined from sugar beet at Wissington in 1925.

Back on the Fen line, Michael is bound for King’s Lynn and Wells-next-the-Sea, where he boards the exceptionally narrow-gauge Wells and Walsingham light railway. Arriving in Walsingham, Michael discover that until Henry VIII’s Reformation, this small village was one of the great Roman Catholic shrines. During the 1920s and 30s, there was a revival in pilgrimage to Walsingham, and a new Anglican shrine to the Virgin Mary was built.

Boris Johnson's former chief adviser made a series of claims and allegations about the government's response to the pandemic.

Testing wasn't possible in the early stages of the pandemic, says the health secretary.

The ex-chief adviser accused the government of causing tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths.

The health secretary says nearly three quarters of new Covid cases are of the Indian variant.

But Boris Johnson says he sees nothing "currently in the data" to suggest unlocking will have to be delayed.

Matt Hancock's constituents share their views on him as their MP and as the health secretary.

Matt Hancock says he gets up each day and asks "what must do I to protect life?" as that is the job of the health secretary.

Dominic Cummings said Hancock should have been fired for lying, while giving evidence before a joint session of the Commons Heath, and Science and Technology committees.

No 10 will try to brush off the ex-aide's claims but they reveal an administration scrambling on many fronts.

A corner of East Anglia is home to three US Air Force bases, and thousands of Americans.

Colchester United sign Ipswich Town midfielder Cole Skuse on a two-year deal, while centre-back Tom Eastman signs a new contract.

Afrika Green from Suffolk talks about how George Floyd's death changed her hometown.